Office hours: Monday to Friday

9:00am -12:00pm & 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Email: stjohnthebaptist@sasktel.net

Website: stjohnthebaptistestevan.com

Facebook: facebook.com/stjohnthebaptistestevan Pastor: Fr. Sathi Antony 306-634-5790

Email: ansathisjb@gmail.com

Pastoral Assistant: Connie Wheeler 306-634-2190 or

306-421-8447 or conniesjb@gmail.com

Office Assistant: Karla Waloshin 306-634-2190

Bookkeeper: Susan Mack

Caretaker: Sigfredo Gonzalez

St. John the Baptist Parish Office

109 12th Avenue, Estevan Sk S4A 1C9

Phone: 306-634-2190 Fax: 306-634-6845

Mass Schedule

Saturday Liturgy: 7:00PM

Sunday Liturgy: 10:00AM

Weekday Liturgy: Please check a current bulletin

Sacrament of Anointing: contact the Parish Office

Reconciliation: Tuesdays 6pm - 6:45pm

Thursdays in Lent 11am - 12pm

Or by appointment

March 9 & 10, 2019

Year C

Upcoming Events at St. John the Baptist Parish

Saturday, March 9 5pm (Torquay) Holy Mass

St. Frances of Rome 7pm Holy Mass

Sunday, March 10 8am (Bienfait) Holy Mass

10am Holy Mass

Monday, March 11 7pm RCIA in the meeting room

7:30pm Knights of Columbus Meeting

Tuesday, March 12 7pm Holy Mass Charlie Loustel; K of C

Wednesday, March 13 11am (Hospital) Holy Mass Irene Weinrauch; Ginny LaBelle

Thursday, March 14 12:10pm Holy Mass Deceased relatives of the Salaway & Rolfes Families

7pm Lenten Mission in the Parish Hall

8pm SJB Choir Practice

Friday, March 15 6pm Adoration followed by Stations of the Cross and Holy Mass

7:30pm Robert Cyr; The Family

Saturday, March 16 5pm (Torquay) Holy Mass

7pm Holy Mass

Sunday, March 17 8am (Bienfait) Holy Mass

St. Patrick 10am Holy Mass

11am Messy Church Day Activities in the Parish Hall

St. John the Baptist Parish would like to congratulate the newest members of our parish family

who were baptized in March. May they always be surrounded by God’s love.

Casey Audigier Bondoc, daughter of Cliffvan Bondoc and Amelnah Padol

Maverick Allan Chamney, son of James and Kelsey Chamney

Elsie Mary Jane, Evangelina James and William Matthew Ciepliski, children of Aaron and Melanie Ciepliski

Harrison Scott Park, son of John Park and Melanie Ciepliski

Brynlee Ann-Marie Gagnon, daughter of Ricki Gagnon

Fox Joseph Kendall, son of Justin and Paige Kendall

Rya Lynn King, daughter of Justin King and Mylene Sivret

Ruby Lola May Mack, daughter of Jayme and Kristen Mack

Mia Mabel Senchuk, daughter of Jarren Senchuk and Tanisha Mack

Charlie Rose Walsh, daughter of Christopher and Michelle Walsh

Quinn Grace Walter, daughter of Mathew and Maria Walter

Wesley Gregory Yakimchuk, son of Nick Yakimchuk and Jamie Daniuk

Lenten Lunch Schedule - Who wants Jesus to die?

March 15th Salvation Army/St. Joseph’s Hospital @ St. Joseph’s Hospital

The Father wants Jesus to Die - 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2

March 22nd Trinity Lutheran Church

Judas wants Jesus to Die - Luke 22:7-20

March 29th St. Peter’s Lutheran Church

Barabbas wants Jesus to Die - Mark 15:6-15

April 5th St. Paul’s United Church

The High Priest wants Jesus to Die - John 18:12-14

April 12th St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church

Satan wants Jesus to Die - Matthew 4:1-11

St. John the Baptist Parish Lent and Holy Week Mass Schedule

Saturday, April 13 at 7pm - Palm Sunday Holy Mass

Sunday, April 14 at 10am - Palm Sunday Holy Mass

Thursday, April 18 at 7:30pm - Holy Thursday Holy Mass

Friday, April 19 at 12pm - Good Friday Liturgy of the Word

Friday, April 19 at 3pm - Good Friday Liturgy of the Word

Saturday, April 20 at 3pm - Easter Basket Blessing

Saturday, April 20 at 8:30pm - Easter Vigil

Sunday, April 21 at 10am - Easter Sunday Holy Mass

Please note that during Lent the Thursday Holy

Masses will be at 12:10pm. Also, every Friday

during Lent there will be Adoration at 6pm and

Stations of the Cross and Holy Mass at 7pm.

There will not be a Holy Mass at 9am on Fridays

during Lent.

Stations of the Cross

Each Friday during Lent, you are invited to take some time out of your day to reflect and prepare your heart

for Easter. We will begin with Adoration at 6pm , then Stations of the Cross at 7pm followed by Holy Mass.

Date Led By

Friday, March 15 CWL

Friday, March 22 Parishioners

Friday, March 29 Holy Family Teachers & Staff

Friday, April 5 Pastoral Council

Friday, April 12 K of C

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting for our Parish will be on Sunday,

March 31 at 11:30am (following the 10am Holy Mass).

Everyone is invited!! Come see what your Parish is up to and

please bring any suggestions or recommendations for your

Parish Family.

Readings for March

16 & 17

First Reading geniesis 15.5-12, 17-18

Second Reading Phillipians 3.17-4.1

Gospel Luke 9.28b-36

You can donate your used

prescription eye glasses and

tabs from canned beverages

to St. Mary’s School c/o

Gwen Van de Woestyne.

These donations will be

forwarded to Regina Pasqua

Hospital and an Eye

Practitioner for those in

need.

RCIA

Taking part in our RCIA program this year, we have four

catechumens, Catherine Kroeker, Savanna Kuntz, Morgan

Petersen and Hyunok Min, and two candidates, Kristina Muhr

and Chantel Cossette.

Our catechumens are attending the Rite of Election this

weekend where they will be accepted by the Church to

continue on their journey towards the Easter sacraments.

God of Love,

Let us surround our catechumens and candidates with

prayer as we accompany and lead them to encounter Christ.

And may they find in our community, compelling signs of

unity and generous love. Amen.

March 10, 2019 - 1st Sunday of Lent

“I have now brought you the first fruits of the products of the soil which you, O Lord, have given to me.” (Deuteronomy 26:10)

This line from the Old Testament offers two challenges. First, do you give to God from your “first fruits”, the best that you have to offer, or do you give from what is leftover? Second, do you recognize that everything you have has been given to you by God? Ask God for a grateful and generous heart, every day, in all circumstances.

FAST AND FEAST DURING LENT

When we hear about Fasting, often and always it reminds us of abstinence from food. But there are certain

areas, which will help us to be more holy if we can fast; at the same time we can feast on certain levels of

our lives.

Fast from Suspicion and Feast on Truth

Fast from Complaining and Feast on Appreciation

Fast from Judging and Feast on Christ with in others

Fast from Idle Gossip and Feast on Purposeful Silence

Fast from Anger and Feast on Forgiveness

Fast from Discouragement and Feast on Hope

Fast from Worry and Feast on Trusting God

Fast from Unrelenting Pressures and feast on Unceasing Prayer

Fast from Lethargy and Feast on Enthusiasm

Fast from Emphasizing the Differences and Feast on The Unity

Fast from Thoughts of Illness and Feast on the Healing Power of God

THOUGHTS FOR ACTION – LENT 2019 Pope Francis said on Ash Wednesday, as he urged people to slow down and turn to Christ during the penitential season. Fasting from food or other things during Lent is a chance to reorient our unnecessary material attachments. “Jesus on the wood of the cross burns with love, and calls us to a life that is passionate for him, which is not lost amid the ashes of the world; to a life that burns with charity and is not extinguished in mediocrity,” “Is it difficult to live as he asks? Yes, it is difficult, but it leads us to our goal,” he continued. “Lent shows us this. It begins with the ashes, but eventually leads us to the fire of Easter night; to the discovery that, in the tomb, the body of Jesus does not turn to ashes, but rises gloriously.” “It is a summons to stop, to focus on what is essential, to fast from the unnecessary things that distract us. It is a wake-up call for the soul.” This wake-up call, he said, includes a message from the Lord: “Return to me.” “Return to me, says the Lord. To me. The Lord is the goal of our journey in this world. The direction must lead to him.” He advised to fix our gaze upon the Crucified Christ, because “from the cross, Jesus teaches us the great courage involved in renunciation.” “We will never move forward if we are heavily weighed down,” he continued. “The poverty of the wood, the silence of the Lord, his loving self-emptying show us the necessity of a simpler life, free from anxiety about things.” In his homily, Pope Francis reflected on the three areas the Lord invites Catholics to focus on during Lent – almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. “What are they for?” he asked. “Prayer reunites us to God; charity, to our neighbor; fasting, to ourselves.” The season of Lent is an invitation to focus first on God, he continued, then on charity toward others, and “finally, Lent invites us to look inside our heart, with fasting, which frees us from attachment to things and from the worldliness that numbs the heart.” Comparing the heart to a magnet, which always “needs to attach itself to something,” he said if it always “attaches” to things of the world, “sooner or later it becomes a slave to them.” By comparison, if people turn their hearts to the things which abide, which do not pass away, that is where they will find true freedom, he said. The ashes, he explained, are a sign of this detachment – “a sign that causes us to consider what occupies our mind.” “The small mark of ash, which we will receive, is a subtle yet real reminder that of the many things occupying our thoughts, that we chase after and worry about every day, nothing will remain,” he stated. “Earthly realities fade away like dust in the wind,” he said, reminding Catholics that no material possessions or wealth go with them past the grave. “Lent is the time to free ourselves from the illusion of chasing after dust,” he urged. “Lent is for rediscovering that we are created for the inextinguishable flame, not for ashes that immediately disappear; for God, not for the world; for the eternity of heaven, not for earthly deceit; for the freedom of the children of God, not for slavery to things.” “We should ask ourselves today: Where do I stand? Do I live for fire or for ash?” Personal question for reflection: “What makes me different in Lent?”